BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to chip shortage

Re:BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to ch... by titzer on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:43PM (#29372791)

There are also completely unusable by visually impaired people who need a completely different interface. I'm so sick of getting touchscreens shoved down my throat by pollyanna-ish types.

(I am not currently visually impaired but have experienced several weeks of temporary blindness...it's a completely terrifying experience. Suddenly computers were almost wholely useless to me.)

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Re:BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to ch... by seanmcdirmid on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:50PM (#29372867)

At what level of visual impairment is one able to still drive safely? I’m not sure touch screens would be the biggest problem in that situation.

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Re:BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to ch... by gambiting on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:56PM (#29372925)

Far sighted people can still drive safely, but might need glasses(or a different kind of glasses) to operate screens in a car. Where previously you could adjust things by touch and intuition, well, now you can't.

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Re:BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to ch... by simion314 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @04:02PM (#29372988)

I assume parent comment was complaining on physical buttons getting removed from many home electronics and a company removed keys from a keyboard and replaced with a touchbar thingy - though from what I read they had the courage to admit the users did not like it but nobody seems to think "let's do a real world user UX test before we do major changes because some vision person thinks this touch shit looks futuristic".

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Re:BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to ch... by varjag on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:48PM (#29372845)

Since we're talking about driver's dashboard here it's a very marginal case.

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